Foxy Digitalis
The journey through Stephen Ulrich’s (of big Lazy) “Earthly” is a fluid diamond, pushed through shadowlands by emotive guitar vignettes and a curious disposition. Throughout Marco North’s video, cryptic narratives unfold within Ulrich’s rich composition’s bouncy rhythms and mischievous framework. North, an American ex-pat who fled Moscow for Tbilisi, Georgia, where he shot most of […]
Midnight corridors become spacious, crystal excavations reflecting electric harp sonorities in every direction. Kety Fusco’s “2072” is a small vignette with eternal power. Sharp melodies drip with melancholic flashbacks, as though visions of what could have been transformed our memory of what was. “My melody will accompany me in my passing,” Fusco says, “reminding me […]
For their newest release, Portrait of an Atmosphere, the duo of Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig use spacious, shifting sonic vignettes to create an ephemeral narrative spread across five pieces. “Portrait IV” meanders through changing landscapes with a hypnotic piano arrangement, and scattered improvisational pieces are woven into the spaces in between. Rich, organic timbres echo […]
The monochromatic textures and simple movements of Daniela Hýbnerová’s animations (inspired by Rebecca Holmes’s fantastic cover art) in the “Graces & Muses” video are a mirage for the complex arrangements and emotional depth singing underneath. Award-winning composer, Victoria Wijeratne’s forthcoming EP on Dragon’s Eye Recordings, Graces & Muses, is a gentle opening of the floodgates. Shifting […]
The woozy, celebratory drift of Fordmastiff’s “Counterfeit” gets bathed in outer space visuals and a heavy dose of neon in Natália Reis’s excellent video. Inspired by Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Carnival Parades, the journey from subterranean, liminal club collages to bright, effusive stomp on “Counterfeit” is like following our memories of last night in reverse. Instead of […]
Doom Flower fills the night’s hollow with a cool glow within the churn of mechanical rhythms, stilted guitar excursions, and buried bass globules. Jess Price’s voice cuts through the midnight echoes, hanging above the matte-infused layers of stoic sonics bolstered by this shrine to the beautiful resonance of decay. Black and white imagery pushes us […]
Globules of neon-soaked sonic decimation are like a warm, enveloping greeting from the opening thrall of “Worthington,” off Fruit LoOops‘ stellar 2022 album, Last Chance at the Pharmacy. Skittering rhythms careen through blacked-out corridors, shifting the trajectories of a thousand angular guitar shards. All the pieces come together like a surrealist sonic sculpture fitted with broken glass […]
Bliss is a fleeting memory permeating the intimate landscape of Purple Decades’ (aka Cincinnati’s Tristan Eckerson) beguiling “Everthus the Ether.” Repeating phrases etch into our internal dialogue, thawing layers of emotive permafrost with emotive passages and expressive vulnerability. “Everthus the Ether” is a wistful coda for a time of separation leading to reconnective embraces. Mathilde […]
Biliana Voutchkova’s DUOS series continues to be one of my favorite things about 2022. Unleashing album after album in conjunction with Relative Pitch Records, there’s not much time to come up for air. That’s a big part of the appeal for me, as Voutchkova’s unique approach and style are instantly recognizable yet always shapeshifting. Each […]